Basic software and utilities
System software is a set of programs and their complexes., that help keep your computer running, as well as computer networks. It aims to: prevention and diagnostics of computer networks and computer hardware; creation of an operating environment, so that other programs can function; implementation of additional technological processes (archiving, copying, file recovery, etc.); ensuring efficient and reliable operation of the computing system and computer. The system software of the programs can be divided into basic and service. The first comes with the computer, and the second is purchased, of course, additionally. Basic software This is a set of software tools, which can keep your computer running. This provision includes: operating shells; network operating system; operating system. The latter system is needed to, to control the execution of programs for the user, plan and manage computing resources. There are many flavors of the operating system today.: Windows XP Professional, Windows Home Edition, Unix, Linux, Windows 98 and many others. They can be divided into: single and multiplayer; portable and non-portable to other types of computers; single-task and multi-task; networked and non-networked. A network operating system is a complex of programs, which provides transmission, storage and processing of information on the network. They provide various kinds of network services to users. This is file management, network, email, etc. Special programs are called operating shells., necessary to facilitate communication between the user and the operating system. They are …